MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR OCTOBER, 1804. Embellished with A PORTRAIT OF HENRY CARD, ESQ. ENGRAVED BY RIDLEY, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING. PRINTED, FOR THE PROPRIETORS, By J. Wright, No. 38, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. And published by Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry; the United Kingdom. CORRESPONDENCE. In our next number will appear a masterly essay on the style of ADDISON, compared with that of JOHNSON, by the author of the ingenious paper on Voltaire's Candide, and the Rasselas of Dr. Johnson, inserted vol. xiii. p. 235. We thank the author of the Lines to Mrs. L, but must decline inserting them, for reasons which we cannot explain. The remainder of the article on Canine Sagacity will be acceptable, TOM TRUNKMAKER's observations are certainly just, but were we to insert all the letters we receive upon the same subject, we fear our sheets would soon be chiefly devoted to the purposes of his own trade. The anecdote communicated by ORPRI in our next. The paper transmitted by J. Tr shall be sought for, and, if approved, inserted. The compositions of VARANES came duly to hand, but, by some accident, were left unnoticed. The following articles cannot be inserted, viz. Amesis and Amoranda; a Tale. The Muses' Address, to Mr. H. S. by ELIZA. The epigrams of ATTICUS totally discredit his signature; there is, at least, no attic salt in them. CENSOR ANATOMICUS wields a most unmerciful knife, and deserves to be cut up himself, in return for his barbarous dissection of the YOUNG ROSCIUS. †† We have the pleasure to announce, as shortly to be published, “An Historical Memoir of the Political Life of John Milton, by Charles Edward Mortimer, Esq." new modelled, improved, and enlarged from the Essay inserted in this work. MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR OCTOBER, 1804. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HENRY CARD, ESQ. (With a Portrait.) He who possesses a mediocrity of fortune, enjoys that state of life, which is, perhaps, the most productive of real happiness, but gene→ rally furnishes scanty memorials to the pen of the biographer. The subject of the present memoir was born of respectable parents at Egham, in Surry, 1779. He was first placed in a private school at Woodford,,and about the age of ten, placed under the tuition of Dr. Thompson, of Kensington, whose school was, about that period, filled with the sons of the great, the wealthy, and the learned. Here our author gave the first proofs of being endowed with a memory both capacious and retentive, and displayed, on various occasions, very great taste for public speaking. Once in the year, Dr. T. invited the parents and friends of his scholars to hear them recite speeches from the most approved authors, in prose and poetry, and the writer of this article well remembers the plaudits which Mr. Card drew in Pyhrrus's famous answer to the embassy of Orestes. The celebrated Walker, author of Elements of Elocution, Rhyming, and Pronouncing Dictionaries, &c. &c. was the person who prepared the pupils for these public exhibitions, and among those who most distinguished themselves, may be mentioned the names of the late and present Earl Cowper, and their brother, the member for Hertford. Mr. Card was, in his thirteenth year, removed from Kensington to Westminster school, where he remained four years. Among the youths in his form, Lord Henry Petty was no less distinguished by his eminent abilities and his amiable disposition, than by his highrank. To him Mr. C. has inscribed his History of the Revolutions of Russia; and we may say, with perfect confidence, that few dedications have been written with better claims to the dignity of truth and to the feelings of independence. After Mr. C. had reached the sixth form, he left Westminster, with the reputation of possessing both solidity and quickness of |